Mobile Internet usage doubling year on year, Statcounter

Global internet usage through mobile devices, excluding tablets, has almost doubled to 8.5% in January 2012 from 4.3% last year according to free Web analytics company StatCounter. The firm’s research arm StatCounter Global Stats highlights the increasing use of mobile devices to access the Internet with market share doubling year on year since 2009 (which recorded only 0.7% usage).

"While global internet usage through mobiles is still under 10%, the pace of growth is remarkable," said Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter (pictured).

StatCounter also announced that new stats regarding mobile vendors are now available on its Global Stats website. The firm has been compiling and refining these stats for some time and has now made the beta project public. Based on initial research covering all traffic to the StatCounter network, Nokia leads worldwide, most probably driven by its dominance in India. Apple is second globally but leads the US and UK markets. In the UK RIM is second only to Apple.

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